Speech

Ollama can now generate [speech](https://docs.ollama.com/capabilities/speech) with Phonon on Apple Silicon. `ollama run` plays text or a chat model's reply aloud as the audio is generated, and apps can stream audio through the OpenAI-compatible `/v1/audio/speech` endpoint.

```sh
ollama run phonon "Hello from Ollama."
```

d3 decision models

[d3](https://ollama.com/library/d3) brings vLLM Semantic Router's decision models to Ollama. Give a model text, structured state, or an image, and ask it to classify, answer yes or no, or score options with probabilities. The family includes 2B, 4B, 9B, and 27B sizes.

```sh
ollama run d3 "A customer says their card was charged twice." --ask "Is this a billing issue?"
```

Flint on Linux and Windows

[Flint](https://ollama.com/library/flint) now runs on Linux and Windows as well as macOS.

Other improvements

- Streaming OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages requests now report generation failures instead of ending silently after partial output.
- `ollama launch` now passes cloud models' context lengths and capabilities to coding tools, fixing incorrect context and compaction settings.
- Anthropic-compatible web search now uses the model's supported thinking setting in follow-up requests, preventing avoidable failures.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.40.8...v0.40.9

Full release notes on GitHub →